Ok so several of the projects have fallen at the wayside and been scrapped - its not that they were not viable projects but that i've lost interest in pursuing them.

This blog has been neglected as has the development of portfolio pieces - in an attempt to correct this i will be uploading development images as and when they are done - setting unrealistic targets led to stalls and poor creation of assets

Sting

 Sting is the Elven shortsword weilded by Bilbo Baggins in the lord of the ring and Hobbit

split into 4 different sections; the weapon is comprised of the Blade, Hilt, Handle and Pommel

 the handle is simple and wooden with silver fiiligree denoting leaves. oval shape capped by the pommel

 the crossgaurd is inset with a depression, with elvish writing embossed from the hilt while the blade itself has engraving/depression of elvish writing.

a triangular rest meets the mid point of the blade

 the pommel is smooth and hard metal

 the weapon has a rotational symmetry of 180 degrees so only half of the model actually needs to be modelled

my target is 3000 tris for the sword, so 1500 for each side of the weapon